skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to imagine another EV company will be very happy to hire the exec Musk fired along with the staff of their choosing. Or maybe the EV companies could all throw cash into an independent charging company? Either way this infrastructure is too important (and long term, too lucrative) for someone to not get involved.
For the record I wasn’t disparaging the maintainers.

In Tesla’s situation, they need more people with a maintenance mindset to sustain their company.

SpaceX has a nice mix of both.
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It’s what I was trying to get across. Use nuclear where you would use a peaked plant and then direct the nuclear entry into storage when renewables are active.
No, over-the-air updates are not supported. The instructions for flashing updates patched with avbroot are here:

https://github.com/chenxiaolong/avbroot?tab=readme-ov-file#u...
Super interesting topic and awesome book overall!

I may be nitpicking, but any teaching material with JavaScript poor coding practices can hurt both humans and LLMs.

1. When you don't reassign a variable it's a `const`

2. for (let i = 0; i < total; i++) {
randomCounts[i] = 0;
} is `new Array(total).fill(0)`

etc.
Like I would read some Jira and get up to speed. Hit the road running.

Even with the most competently run department it would take months to get a grasp on their projects.
That's all nice and well for the sat segment. The downlink station and customer premise equipment is a wholly different story of course.
DEI is not the same thing as "you can't hire straight, cis white men without explicit approval." A policy like that is illegal. The fact that you would conflate them tells me you don't know what DEI actually is, and are just repeating right wing talking points.
How do you estimate the value? Is there any check of the conservation state of the book?
> I bet a huge segment of the user base could easily self purchase a mobility scooter and achieve the same quality of life [...]

Probably even a higher quality of life, because the manufacturer can make arbitrary changes to the unregulated scooter in response to market demands.
Once upon a time we were nomadic. Then we became sedentary - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedentism

Now back to nomadic.
EV transportation is a gateway to large-scale renewable energy storage, so even if you dislike private transportation this is actually pretty damn useful. On the other hand the (mostly Chinese) battery suppliers seem to have entered the fast part of the S-curve, so maybe Tesla isn't critical anymore -- except maybe to the competitiveness of the US in these areas.
> objectively

I do not think that word means what you think it means
At this point I am not sure EVs are the best option in short to medium term.

Outside of the US there is still a legitimate fear of range anxiety made worse by Musk's announcement.

It seems to me that widespread deployment of hybrids where 95% of daily driving is done on batteries is a more workable approach.
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Gotta love the Elon apologist trying to twist things so the almighty Elon is never wrong. At least he's probably convinced himself that Elon is still the GOAT.
The relay doesn't really need to be opto-isolated. It can be, and optos are cheap enough that many common pre-assembled relay boards include them, but it's not really necessary.

If a person has enough stuff in front of them to make a relay reliably click on and off, then they also have enough stuff in front of them to make a conventional forced air furnace turn on and off just as a thermostat would.
Haven’t own an EV but I have done lots of research.

For the BMW i3 which is another series hybrid with more range, it seems 60% of owners think the engine isn’t worth it, but the rest love having the engine. There is no in between.

The original i3 had 80 mile range, the second generation 120, and the last 150. From what I saw in researching by the time the range was up to 150 the BEV only folks were loudest.
> The issue isn't government, it's who's using government; access to capital on top of that government influence gets you a lot closer to that bottomless wallet.

One issue is a big disconnect between user and payer. Government is especially prone to that, but any big organisation can have this problem.
Start gardening, playing music, drawing, riding bike, going for a walk, run, get a dog, ....
I'm gonna guess it's some "a.i." powered thing that offers suggestions on how to label e-mails?

Because we must shoe-horn a.i. into EVERYTHING to keep the numbers going up, so the status quo apple-cart doesn't get too upset by the riff-raff and their outlandish demands.
Thank you for raising that, we need less cars! (More bicycles and related infrastructure would be nice) :D
Under that model, what about the people who can't afford a more reliable wheelchair because insurance is no longer obligated to cover it?
Patiently waiting for a train revolution
With all due respect, that figure is still absolutely insane.
> they can't be sold as medical devices and, subsequently, won't be covered by your insurance.

This is something I've never really understood. Wouldn't the insurance company be ever grateful to you if you accepted a non-medical wheelchair because it's 1/10th the cost. Hell, have 5! Is there any reason insurance can't pay for them?
Safari also entirely disables CSS multi-column when printing per this 17 year old bug: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15546.
This suggests that Tesla doesn’t have an established method of contact for all of its suppliers

This is the big first “remarkable” piece of evidence? This seems very typical.
I mean would you rather the browser handle this at a lower level where it can do so efficiently or libraries continue to solve these things on the main thread with pure javascript? The defacto way to handle anchoring views today is with something like Floating UI [1] and that doesn't even handle portaling content to root of the DOM except for in React.

[1] https://floating-ui.com/
Citroen Ami would be great for you. There are now cars built for this type of thing.
SilverBullet looks very good, it reminds me of Hugo (https://gohugo.io/) Now if only some one combined SilverBullet with Hugo we could have a live view/edit in Hugo =) Thanks for the link.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/affect-vs-effect-usa...
You can buy the same exact app on the app store for $300.
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So I re-ran my battery spreadsheet on this, and the short version is: if the claimed reduction in cost of 1/3rd current LiFePO4 can be achieved - at retail (so I just knocked my LiFePO4 figure down to 33%) can be achieved...oh my does that change the economics. In a "the repayment period of installing peak-shifting capacity at my house would be under 2 years, and the lifetime yield would be 50% on the installation cost".

So if they can hit that sort of cost reduction...that's revolutionary for grid batteries.
You dont like kitchens where every cabinet is different slightly different size/color/material?
No and you needn't bother with the medical tourism. You're allowed to use whatever assistive device you'd like, it's only when you wade into getting insurance or the govt to pay for it that the regulations start to matter.
Last time we had to fast charge on the way to Yosemite, we had lunch at a strategically parked taco truck in the same lot (they even had a picnic table).

We would have walked to a nearby restaurant if needed.
Have you run the numbers on that?

It's quite likely to be a far better use of those resources to invest them in tree planting initiatives if your goal is to sequester carbon.

But if you want to satiate your techno-lust a technological solution to some of our climate problems may lie in the form of space based optical systems that reduce the amount of sunlight from falling on glaciers and the poles.
Here for example: https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/64974/why-are-sat...

Inmarsat is the only exception for phones.
Unfortunately, this article explains nothing.

It says that you need 2,500-3,000 newtons to break concrete, which a hand can produce:

> the hand of the karateka, or practitioner of karate, can… exert a force of more than 3,000 newtons

But then fails to explain why this doesn't shatter the hand:

> Human bone is five times stiffer than concrete and fifty times harder to break (successfully karate-chopping a femur would take more than 25,000 newtons’ worth of force). The bones in the hand are easily able to absorb the stress of the impact.

I mean sure, but karate chopping is done with the hand, not the femur. The femur is the largest bone in the body, in the leg!

And if it takes 25,000 newtons to shatter the gigantic femur, it seems entirely reasonable that it would take only, say, a hundredth of that to shatter one of the tiny carpal bones in the hand, for instance. Which would be 250 newtons, far below what it takes to break wood or concrete.

And even if bone is 50 times harder to break than concrete, the bone that absorbs impact first is tiny compared to the piece of concrete.

So even after reading this article, I have no answer whatsoever on why the tiny hand bones don't shatter.

Is it something about the bones' arrangement? Their flexibility? Something about the properties of the ligaments that connect them? Something to do with our skin? The level of compressibility of water?
Many people in large cities spend $300+ per month on Uber instead of owning a car etc
Any big company’s SAP/oracle/dynamics system should absolutely have a list of active suppliers and tge contacts at those suppliers
Consistency and standards irl are even more “tyrannical” not less bc you can’t change the thing easily after the fact
Our whole economy is feeling increasingly Soviet. Somehow our business leaders have decided that the best business is one that does not serve its customers, and that providing a good or service efficiently and effectively is poor management because it is "leaking value" to counterparties.

I guess the next phase is going to be you need to know people if you want your medical device delivered, your car repaired, or for your internet to quit dropping.
I’m not a language school person, I just get emails about their events :)
I used to work at an org that audits defense programs. A surprising amount of the unreasonable cost is self-inflicted, which is a valid cost to the vendor. If it wasn’t, the auditors have the power to clawback the excess cost.

In defense procurement the costs are frequently inflated greatly by the procurement process overhead and the government imposing last minute changes of scope, requirements, or delivery dates. The government customer is also often slow or delayed on their contracted deliverables, so they can end up spending a lot of money to essentially keep idle capacity warm on the vendor side while they sort out delivery of their part. And then there are the budget rug-pulls at the 11th after the vendor has already committed significant internal resources, which are often a pure loss to the vendor. All of this is endemic to the process. The government knows they are a difficult and expensive customer to work with, and they do try to compensate vendors for the overhead costs this imposes.

People like to talk about $2000 hammers etc but if you actually look at the audits, more often than not the cost was justified. Not because a hammer should cost that much but because that is how much it ends up costing after you account for the government procurement process overhead and the way in which the government executed the contract.
How does that work for things that can only be effectively controlled or opted out of collectively? There's not really a way for an individual to opt out of a corporation using AI in a way that negatively effects them.
That's why I am in favour of more city states like Singapore, or at the very least towards pushing more responsibilities from the federal level to the state level. (The Catholics and EU call that concept 'subsidiarity', handle everything as locally as possible and have the higher levels only there to help when the lower levels can't handle it.)

Eg the FDA ought be to dissolved, and replaced with state level agencies. The state level agencies are, of course, free to cooperate and coordinate. Comparable to how the traffic signs work already in the US.

It's good for Hawaii and New York to have the same road signs, but they can agree on that voluntarily. No need to have a central party force them. Similarly, it's good for both states to have the same or similar rules on drugs, but no need to force them.

See also how the recent wave of cannabis legalisation has been driven by the states. I want to see more of that innovation and experimentation.

> I want a market where I can choose a highly regulated healthcare system or a system with no regulations and a system somewhere in between.

In what I suggest each state would most likely still have mandatory regulation, but it's a lot easier to move between states to find a place that suits you best, instead of moving between entire countries.

I have lots of sympathy for your position, and I would hope that at least some states would take a more laissez faire approach. But the policies you get will ultimately still be decided by what's popular with voters, and they can be a fickle bunch.
Is carbon capture theoretically viable from a thermodynamic viewpoint with all externalities accounted for?

That is to say - can I burn 1 litre of oil in order to capture more than the emissions of 1 litre of oil (without cheating and boxing it at the point of emission), can I use the lifetime energy produced by a 1sqm solar panel to capture the emissions required in the process of creating a 1sqm solar panel?

Including creation and maintenance of whatever apparatus is required to capture the carbon.

It seems to me as if the arguments all focus on money when what really matters is something more akin to an energy return on energy invested calculation.
Why do they need to recover anything? The whole market runs on foogazi. Marc Anderson's favorite founder is Adam Neumann.
If you need Copilot to code in Python, have you really learned Python?
Yes, a smarter mix of options is the way to go. Cars are a one-size-fits-all approach that can't hope to achieve what we need for a sustainable future.

In Perth, Australia, two thirds of all car trips are for distances of less than 5 kilometers. Using cars for these trips is both irrational and a hopelessly profligate use of resources, regardless of how they're powered.

5 kilometers is the kind of distance where even pedal bicycles are competitive with cars in terms of trip time, especially once you factor in traffic. And e-bikes are only getting cheaper and more accessible too.
I had this hobby until I cut the tip of my left finger.

The lesson:
Woodworking is physically dangerous, do not cheapen on tools and protection.
Hmm... I'm not sure it will.

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Bionstrasse 4
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Switzerland

They are not members of the EU. Still, a well-written email in legal lingo in the country's official language helps a lot. Remember to include a reference to the relevant local law.

Some leads:
https://www.ey.com/en_ch/law/a-new-era-for-data-protection-i...
Too bad this one never took off - it looked amazing at the time

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/3/16082864/treble-fm-social-...
Jevon’s paradox says that will just lead to more energy usage.

We will end up with an LLM live training on your watch.
Jim Creek is VLF, which is well above ELF frequencies.
An example from 2022: https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/house-passes-bil...

Supported by Democrats, killed by Republicans. Elections matter.
wgpu uses WGSL as its shader language, not rust..?
Looks like all the heavy lifting is being done by webllm [0]. What we have here is basically one of the demos from that.

[0] https://webllm.mlc.ai/.
My understanding is that PnL doesn't tell the whole story for a capital-intensive business like Uber. Instead, you want to break it down by city -- for a mature market like SF, I'd expect a healthy profit margin; but for a new city that Uber entered recently, I'd expect it to be a loss for a few years as upfront investments in marketing, ground team, recruiting, etc. take time to pay off.

What would be a bad sign is if Uber continues to lose money, even in its most mature markets.
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The commentators there are saying it’s a coverup because it can’t actually get a list of male artists, but that’s a very trivial job for an LLM - try asking ChatGPT to tell you which of a list of names are male.

What I think is more likely is that Spotify, concerned about people prompting their AI to give them Nazi music and getting a playlist of Burzum and Death in June, has added a system prompt containing something along the lines of “You MUST reject any requests that are hateful, non-inclusive, etc”, and that’s what’s causing it.
> This is still pie in the sky technology.

4% of the hydrogen production in China is by electrolysis now. Electrolysers there are below $300/kW.

You object to this because it's not available, then you point to SMRs, which don't exist now except on slides. And given NuScale's recent disappointments one should not expect the rosy promises of their (or other) SMRs to come true or find much of a market.

> Absolutely. If we’re okay with gas being a core energy source for the foreseeable future, we shouldn’t build nuclear. (And for countries without safe access to gas, coal.)

The gas would be hydrogen. Hydrogen + batteries are nicely complementary and enable renewables to undercut new construction nuclear even for supplying baseload power.
They have to make money on those rides for that to be a plus.
IDK, it seems to me that the people who genuinely feel threatened by AI, are the ones that are impressed by it and/or fear it will only get better. Whereas those pointing out the shortcomings, and/or know it will always have its shortcomings, don't see any reason to feel threatened.
The Fed dropped the ball by keeping rates low. Their choice to keep them artificially low created mountains of problems that we’re still suffering from.
And I must also say I was not wearing a uniform goose stepping while clutching a dictionary as I made that comment :) We're all here to learn.
This all has to do with how commercial real estate is valued; rent determines the valuation. If companies are unwilling to pay the rent the space sits empty waiting for a tenant willing to.

The reason for this is if you take lower rent than previously your building value changes and your lenders make you cough up the difference to cover additional principal.

Since the loans come due every 5ish years we’re now seeing buildings unable to justify their previous value, and having to walk away or get valued at their current rent.

It’s going to be ugly for a while.
> I’ve used the WebLLM project by MLC AI for a while to interact with LLMs in the browser when handling sensitive data but I found their UI quite lacking for serious use so I built a much better interface around WebLLM.
How do you know it was "AI-fuelled"? And what makes it a "frenzy"?

People have been committing terrible code to projects for decades now, long before AI.

The solution is a code review process that works, and accountability if experienced employees are approving commits without properly reviewing them.

AI shouldn't have anything to do with it. Bad code shouldn't be passing review period, no matter if it was AI-assisted or not. And if your org doesn't do code review, then that's the actual problem.
If they were really doing racist and illegal things they'd be getting sued. This "don't hire white men" thing only exists in the fever dreams of right wingers.
Unrelated to crypto: Trying to select the word "entropy" (with the cool colour & wave effect) grinds Chrome to halt on Android.
This is correct. For the most part, you are taking the money from your profit centers to invest in new initiatives. Could be geo's, could also be verticals, etc.

This is not at all unusual for a company where the top line is growing. As a point of comparison, Amazon was founded in 1994 and not profitable until 2003.
I hate to break it to you but this is ahistorical, as this story is several hundred years old the peasants at that time had no concerns for world politics nor were they concerned by whom they were governed, the circumstances for them wouldn't change
Are most Steam Deck users even aware that there's a Linux and some userland under the hood, or is it just a portable game console to them (as an Android phone is just another pocket computer)?
All that debt was converted to common stock. It doesn’t need to be paid back.
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I believe it just said Mullvad, which I interpreted to be the VPN. It was on the NYC subway.
Here's a running list of the demos I've made so far in the reddit thread -

https://www.demo.fun/d/BH5ZC7C3LIax6OA - https://www.conversaitions.ai

https://www.demo.fun/d/xpy1UZC5f3SjFSz - https://theircircle.group

I'm going to be brutally honest with my experiences. Building software is hard but once you get your message down, you just need to repeat it over and over and over. I'll help you get your message across by showing you what other people experience when they use your site.
I'm sure you know that's beside the point. Free labor isn't that free when the only alternative to trading the most useful half of your life to corporations is starvation in the streets. And the only alternative to that is dependence on a state's social safety net. Neither may be outright chattel slavery or literal feudalism but in modern society where people truly own so little, even of themselves, it isn't freedom either.
The car industry is not doing amazing now, especially with EVs and hybrids that are unpopular and consumers tightening their belts.
Man. I remember people saying the same thing about Windows for Workgroups 3.11, before they eventually moved into the Windows 95/98 era, abandoned Windows (or computing in general) altogether, or died or something.

Then, the same thing happened with Windows 98SE.

And Windows 2000.

And Windows XP.

And...
HN thread never fails to blow my mind. Delightful books to showing programming and science as an art !
The submission 13 hours ago [0] (3 points, 3 comments) has some useful detail (unlike this), looking forward to the presentation though!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40246928
Understanding this structure clarifies commercial rent negotiations for business owners:

The landlord can't negotiate on rent, but he can negotiate on a ton of other things that are financially equivalent.
Inside the us there's also quite a bit of range anxiety. It's one of the larger adoption hold ups.

That and price.
Agree. I use AI less now for coding than I did a year ago. I still use it a lot but it is a better teacher than a doer.
Adding to what db48x said, the CL standard dictates what goes into the "COMMON-LISP" package (abbreviated "CL"), but also allows implementation specific additions as long as they're put in their own packages. Over time the different implementations have added similar functionality but with different APIs and in different packages. The "trivial-" prefix is a naming convention for third party (not a compiler vendor) packages that wrap those implementation specific system libraries to provide the same API everywhere. Usually these are implemented as macros or functions simple enough to get inlined and not have much overhead.

In this case, the standard only requires high level functions "inspect" and "describe", but most implementations have packages (SBCL provides a "sb-introspect") to get more detail.

It's generally done for things like threading, garbage collection settings, CFFI, etc. that would be difficult to implement outside of the compiler or runtime.